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Starting AIX Common Desktop Environment Manually

This document provides instructions for starting and stopping the AIX Common Desktop Environment automatically and manually. It describes using smit dtconfig or the dtconfig command to enable or disable automatic starting of the desktop. It also provides steps for manually starting the desktop login manager as root using the dtlogin command and manually stopping it by getting the login manager's process ID with cat /var/dt/Xpid and killing it with kill -term.

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Starting AIX Common Desktop Environment Manually

This document provides instructions for starting and stopping the AIX Common Desktop Environment automatically and manually. It describes using smit dtconfig or the dtconfig command to enable or disable automatic starting of the desktop. It also provides steps for manually starting the desktop login manager as root using the dtlogin command and manually stopping it by getting the login manager's process ID with cat /var/dt/Xpid and killing it with kill -term.

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Starting/Stopping the AIX Common Desktop Environment Automatically Tasks

Web-based System Manager: wsm system fast path


(System application)
-ORTask
Enabling the Desktop Auto-Start 1
Disabling the Desktop Auto-Start
1

SMIT Fast Path

Command or File

smit dtconfig

dtconfig -e

smit dtconfig

dtconfig -d

Note: Restart the machine after completing this task.

Starting AIX Common Desktop Environment Manually


You can start AIX Common Desktop Environment manually.
Start the Desktop Login Manager Manually
1. Log in to your system as root.
2. At the command line, enter:
/usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon

A Desktop Login screen will display. When you log in, you will start a desktop
session.
Stopping AIX Common Desktop Environment Manually
You can stop AIX Common Desktop Environment manually.
Stop the Login Manager Manually
When you manually stop the login manager, all X servers and desktop sessions
that the login manager started are stopped.
1. Open a terminal emulator window and log in as root.
2. Obtain the process ID of the Login Manager by entering the following:
cat /var/dt/Xpid

3. Stop the Login Manager by entering:


kill -term process_id

The prtconf command can be used to determine the processor type of the
managed system hardware platform.

The mkvg command accepts an additional flag, -X, to indicate that a new VG must
reside on a specific type of disk. This effectively restricts the VG to this type of
disk while the restriction exists. The following list describes the options to the -X
flag.
-X none This is the default setting. This does not enforce any restriction.
Volume group creation can use any disk type.
-X SSD At the time of creation, the volume group is restricted to SSD
devices only.

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